Shizuko Yoshikawa (born 1934 in Japan, based in Switzerland) was one of the first and few Japanese students at the Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung, known as the postwar "Bauhaus." She later married the
Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.The famousryosai kenbo or ‘good wife, wise mother’ role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern constru
Shizuko Kuroha's Japanese Patchwork Quilting Patterns infuses a cherished American craft with an exquisite Japanese sense of color, detail, and design. This book brings a fresh eye to classic patchwor
When this work was published 20 years ago in Japanese, Shizuko (human and environmental studies, Kyoto U., Japan) acknowledged in her preface that the term ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") was
